Food Renegade

Grain-Free Stuffed “Shells”

KristenM — Mon, 20 May 2013 18:13:59 +0000

Spring brings light and dirt under the fingernails and green! From asparagus to scallions to spinach you can expect your market -- or better yet garden -- to start with these early bright green foods. This recipe is a grain-free take on the classic comfort food stuffed shells. I completely take out the shell while the spinach-cheese filling transforms into "meatballs" that swim in a sea of meaty tomato sauce.

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Bee Deaths Create Crisis for Crops

KristenM — Fri, 10 May 2013 20:09:29 +0000

Our nation's bees are vanishing. Every winter for the last six years, more than a third of all bee colonies in the U.S. have simply ... gone. Now the decimated bee population has finally reached critical mass. According to an industry wide survey, there will no longer be enough bees in the U.S. to pollinate our almond, avocado, blueberry, pear, plum, and apple crops this year. Yes, you read that right. Next year, these crops will fail -- not because of poor weather, not because of a new blight ravaging the crops, but because of a lack of bees.

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WINNER and COUPON for Perfect Supplements

KristenM — Thu, 09 May 2013 17:54:44 +0000

Did you enter last week's giveaway for Perfect Coconut Oil and Perfect Plant Protein from Perfect Supplements? This week I'm pleased to announce the winner. For those of you who did not win, I've also got a fabulous coupon for you to use to get 10% off your next order.

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Top 5 Herbs To Grow For Cooking & Medicinal Use

KristenM — Tue, 07 May 2013 16:28:55 +0000

So you want to grow herbs for cooking and for medicinal use, but you’ve got a small space to grow them in. Maybe you’re in an apartment and you only have a back deck or a kitchen window. No problem! Just grow 5 basic herbs, and you’ll be set! Here’s a list of what to grow & what they’re good for.

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Hybrid Seeds vs. GMOs

KristenM — Wed, 01 May 2013 16:32:35 +0000

Hybrid Seeds. Genetically-modified (GMO) seeds. Heirloom seeds. The labels often confuse people. Not a single day passes without some well-meaning reader leaving a comment like this one: "GMOs are perfectly safe. Farmers and gardeners have been cross-breeding seeds like this for thousands of years. Take off your tinfoil hats, people!" Um... no. Just no. Farmers and gardeners have NOT been cross-breeding seeds like this for thousands of years. What those well-intentioned readers fail to understand is the fundamental difference between hybrid seeds and GMOs.

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Giveaway: Perfect Smoothie Kit From Perfect Supplements

KristenM — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 21:17:16 +0000

My family LOVES smoothies. We pile the fruit, yogurt, eggs, grass-fed gelatin, coconut oil, and whatever else inspires us into the blender, whizz it around for a minute or so, then pour up a tall glass of yummy. They're fast, easy, and can be as nutrient-dense as you make them. This week, I'm hosting a giveaway for a smoothie combo I've grown to love: Perfect Plant Protein and Perfect Coconut Oil from Perfect Supplements.

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Fight Back Friday April 19th

KristenM — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 02:17:10 +0000

Welcome to another Fight Back Friday! Today we are bringing together another collection of recipes, tips, anecdotes, and testimonies from members of the Real Food Revolution. Who are they? Why, they’re the Food Renegades. You know who you are — lovers of SOLE (Sustainable, Organic, Local, and Ethical) food, traditional food, primal food, REAL food,...

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Soy Infant Formula: A Formula For Disaster

KristenM — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 15:51:17 +0000

Soy infant formula should only be used as a last resort. That’s the word from the Israeli Health Ministry, French Food Agency, German Institute of Risk Assessment, British Dietetic Association and other government health organizations around the world.

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GMO Golden Rice: A Panacea Or Hoax?

KristenM — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 20:13:55 +0000

Those who argue in favor of the creation and propagation of genetically-modified organisms, also known as GMOs, will be the first to tell you that GMOs represent a great humanitarian effort to "feed the world." Yet despite their rhetoric, GMOs have gotten a lot of bad humanitarian press. GMO crops like corn and soy aren't living up to their high-yield propaganda. And in less than a decade, India's seen more than 270,000 farmers commit suicide because of the crushing debt they experienced as outrageously expensive GMO cotton and cereal grains performed far worse than anticipated. Given all the negative coverage, it's no wonder that they're trying to tout the humanitarian benefit of Golden...

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Your Apples Are A Year Old

KristenM — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 17:13:07 +0000

The produce you buy in the supermarket or grocery store is not fresh. With many items, like spinach, the leaves may have been plucked no more than a few weeks ago. But with many others, like apples, the fruit probably sat in cold storage for a year before making its way to the supermarket. I thought this was common knowledge. But in a recent Facebook discussion in which many readers chimed in with incredulous statements like, "A year old? No way!" I realized I was wrong. This information is not common knowledge. But it should be.

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